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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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If any company ever really had a problem with this I'm sure Deviantart would be taken down already. As far as I know fanart isn't illegal, taking someone else's idea and claiming it's your own is and it's worse if someone is making money of another idea.
Fanart isn't copyright infringing if it's stated they don't own the idea they based their "art" from. That's like saying, someone who created a masterpiece statue inspired and based on a famous painting should be sued even if they told the rest of the world where the idea came from.
Forgive me but I just realized, you was talking about the Suicune in the background this whole time?
I had never even seen that there and thought you was talking about the Crystal Pony itself! xD Well that's what I get for typing at 4:30am, maybe next time you should make it clearer what you was talking about.
Still, they didn't say they drew that picture, just the pony.
Once again though you didn't draw any of the ponies in "Sitting by the fire" and plenty more in your gallery so you can't tell others what they can't do if you're doing the exact same thing, you're being a hypocrite.
Alter means to change something and you've changed some MLP images.
"For copyright protection to attach to a later, allegedly derivative work, it must display some originality of its own."
None of your art contains any originality of it's own (except maybe the Sonic look-a-like with the exact name from a villain in Harry Potter) unfortunately names aren't included in copyright laws, so your unoriginal name is protected.
I guess though, even if both of you are guilty of Copyright Infringement and have unauthorized derivative works you can both use the defense of "Fair Use".
At least RenePolumorfous doesn't even need to use official artwork to make her art look good, she's only using it as a background so other people know what a Suicune is AND she already said "The background pictures are officialy made by Nintendo/Pokemon Crystal version (c)".
So, she isn't even claiming it as her own, you have not even credited Hasbro for the majority of all your MLP pictures.
I bet YOU don't pay royalties to Hasbro for drawing Twilight Sparkle or Naoto Oshima and Yuji Naka for drawing Sonic.
So maybe you should be grilled for "Copyright infringement". Please just don't tell people they can't draw something, when you can't even practice what you preach.